HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Title X, Unintended Pregnancy, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
Document Summary
Evaluating the success of community health family planning programs. Establishment of local family planning clinics (many of which receive funding through title x) has resulted in an improvement in maternal and child health indicators for the communities served. Individuals who need family planning are often uninsured and rely on family planning clinics that may provide contraception at minimal or low cost. Title x funding enables the support network of 4. 4k clinics that provide comprehensive family planning services to approximately 5 million women each year: 91% are low income, 1/5 of them are adolescents. By providing access to: contraceptive materials, instructions on how to use them effectively, counseling about reproductive health matters, community planning clinics show large reductions in unintended pregnancies, abortions, and births. Each year, publicly subsidized family planning service help prevent 1. 9 million unplanned pregnancies which would otherwise result in: 860,000 unintended births, 810,000 abortions, 270,000 miscarriages.
